Shevchuk

Shevchuk, Shewchuk, Schewchuk, Ševčuk, Sevcuk, Szewczuk, or Chevchuk (Ukrainian: Шевчук) is a widespread Ukrainian surname. It is derived from the Ukrainian word shvets (Ukrainian: швець), "cobbler/shoemaker", and the suffix -uk, denoting descent. It may refer to the following individuals:

• Anatoliy Shevchuk, historian of Ukrainian fine art, writer, and translator
• Andriy Shevchuk (born 1985), Ukrainian footballer
• Anzhelika Shevchuk (born 1969), Ukrainian sprinter
• Serhiy Shevchuk (born 1985), Ukrainian footballer
• Serhiy Shevchuk (born 1990), Ukrainian footballer
• Sviatoslav Shevchuk (born 1970), Ukrainian Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych, Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
• Valeriy Shevchuk (born 1939), Ukrainian writer
• Vasyl Shevchuk (born 1954), Ukraine’s environment minister in 1998-2000 and 2002–2003
• Vladimir Shevchuk (born 1954), Russian footballer and manager
• Vyacheslav Shevchuk (born 1979), Ukrainian footballer
• Yuri Shevchuk (born 1957), Soviet and Russian singer/songwriter, leader of the band DDT
• Yevgeny Shevchuk is the President of Transnistria
• Daniel Shewchuk, a Canadian politician
• Jack Shewchuk, a NHL defenceman for the Boston Bruins
• Jamie Shewchuk, a lacrosse player on the Colorado Mammoth.
• Jonathan Shewchuk, a Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Murphy O. Shewchuk, a Canadian writer and past National President of the Canadian Authors Association.
• Tammy Shewchuk-Dryden (born 1977), Canadian women's ice hockey player

• Mirko Szewczuk (1919-1957), German cartoonist of Austrian-Ukrainian origin
• Stephen Szewczuk, a national commander of the Ukrainian-American veterans, 1997–2000
• Tomasz Szewczuk, a Polish footballer

Related surnames

• Shevchenko
• Shvets
• Szewczyk

Surnames associated with the occupations of cobbler/shoemaker/cordwainer
Celtic	Quéré Gracie, Grassie, Grassick
Germanic	Schumacher, Schuhmacher, Schumaker, Shoemaker, Schoemaker, Shoemark, Schuster, Shuster (from Schuster), Knef Schoenmaker, Schoenmakers, Schoonmaker
Romance	Germanic language surnames ultimately from Latin "sutor": Suter, Sutter, Souter, Sauter, Sutar, Soutar, Souttar Sutor DeSutter, De Sutter, DeZuter, DeZutter, De Zutter De Soto, DeSoto, de Soto, Desoto Scarpa, Scarponi, Calzolaro, Calligaris, Calegari, Chaucer, Zangari Cordonnier, Courvoisier, Corviser, Corvisier, Le Sueur, Sabatier Crispino Sapateiro, Zapatero Ciubotaru, Ciubotariu (borrowing from Slavic)
Slavic	Chebotar, Chebotaryov (Tschebotarioff), Chebotarenko Čizmar, Čižmár, Cizmar, Čižman Łatacz Sapozhnikov, Sapozhnik, Bashmachnikov Shvets, Shevchenko, Shevchuk, Shevtsov, Shautsov, Švec, Ševčík (Sevcik, Shevchik), Szewczyk, Sheuchyk Šuštar (from Schuster) Kopitar
Other	"Sandlar" (סנדלר; "sandal-maker"): HaSandlar, Sandler, Zandler Suutari Kingsepp Varga Csizmadia